Business Analyst

VIBHUTI VASHISTHA

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Summary of Qualification

Over 5+ years of proven track record as Business Analyst with diverse experience supporting business solution software and analyzing business operations in domains including Education and IT Technical.

Certified Scrum Product Owner accredited by the Scrum Alliance.

Adept at eliciting business and functional requirements through 1-1 meeting, interviewing session, Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions.

Expertise in creating UML based Modelling views like Activity / Use Case / Data Flow/ Business Flow /Navigational Flow/Wire Frame diagrams using Rational Products & MS Visio.

Expertise in developing Test Scenarios and executing Test Cases at all stages including User Acceptance Test (UAT)/ Functional Testing/ System Testing/ Regression Testing, as well as maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrices for baseline documents.

Experience in conducting Gap Analysis using AS-IS and TO-BE diagrams.

Proficient technical writing abilities for the creation of Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirements Documents (FRD) and Test Case Documents.

Designed wireframes and mockups to communicate the business and the functional requirements to the clients and developers.

Experienced working in agile environment (Scrum methodology) to ensure high-quality of work with Biweekly iteration.

education

Rajasthan Technical University, Kota, India May 2012

B.Tech. – Bachelor of Technology

Major – Electronics and Communication Engineering

certifications

Certified Scrum Product Owner (ID: 000794377) - CSPO

computer skills

Business Modeling Tools : UML 2.0, Balsamiq mockups, Draw.io

Documentation Tools : MS Office (SharePoint, Word, Excel, Power Point, Project), MS Visio

Databases : Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Data Analytics Tools : Tableau and SiSense.

Requirement Management Tools : Rally, Confluence, JIRA

Project Methodologies : Agile, Waterfall

Operating System : MAC, WINDOWS.

professional experience

Mantram India Deystech Pvt. Ltd., Udaipur, INDIA

Business Analyst

Client: OfficeTimer, Bengaluru, India June 2016 – October 2017

OfficeTimer is a unique employee timesheet software that enables enterprise to estimate, assess and observe employees involved in various projects and related tasks for their quality and billable value by scheduling and tracking hours worked and paid time off. Customized timesheet periods help project managers to assess the weekly, bi-weekly and monthly progress of an employee and the projects they are working on. It can be integrated as part of Payroll systems to pay salary to employees based on time worked.

Responsibilities:

Worked and collaborated with diverse teams in the organization to enhance and integrate new features on the existing OfficeTimer’s timesheet software.

Organized meetings and discussions with stakeholders and end users to understand the project requirements.

Created Power point presentation and Scope documents to identify a feasible scope for a given release.

Coordinated between the internal stakeholders, Development teams and SMEs to implement some main features like the Search capability, adding legend, color coding and Clock in / clock out notifications.

Created wireframe and mockups using Balsamiq.

Analyzed and translated business requirements into system specifications utilizing BPMN and UML diagrams- Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and ER Diagrams in MS Visio.

Defined and documented the Functional Requirements Document (FRD), Business Requirements Document (BRD), System Requirements Specification (SRS), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Use Case Specification.

Created use cases on the basis of the high-level requirements document and user stories via MS word and Rally.

Conducted GAP analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end user requirements with As Is -To Be Process flow diagrams using MS Visio.

Worked with development and QA teams to accomplish timely release objectives.

Worked closely with UAT Testers and End Users during system validation, User Acceptance Testing to expose functionality/business logic problems that unit testing and system testing have missed out

Analyzed the marketing trend and tailored predictive modelling using excel and Tableau.

Wrote SQL queries to extract data from data warehouse.

Client: Keka HR Services, New Delhi, India June 2015 – June 2016

Employee scheduling software automates the process of creating and maintaining a schedule. Automating the scheduling of employees increases productivity and makes many secretarial and manual scheduling positions obsolete. Keka scheduling software track vacation time, paid time off, sick time, compensation time, and alert when there are conflicts. As scheduling data is accumulated over time, it may be extracted for payroll or to analyze past activity. Assigning schedules allows employer/ project managers to see when specific employees are scheduled to work and to compare employees’ actual reported work time to their assigned schedules.

Responsibilities:

Involved in Business Process Flow development, Business Process Modeling, and Analysis.

Initiated all day JAD sessions and open-ended discussions to identify, clarify and simplify requirements with stakeholders, architects, developers and different impacted teams including external vendors.

Played an active and lead role in gathering, analyzing and documenting the Business Requirements, the business rules and Technical Requirements by interacting with the internal team, stakeholders, development team, Project Manager and SMEs to have a better idea about the project.

Conducted GAP Analysis and documented the current state and future state, after understanding the Vision from the Business Group and the Technology Group.

Involved in developing the test strategy and assisted in developing test scenarios, test conditions and test cases.

Partnered with the technical areas in the research, resolution of system and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Created and maintained team’s project roadmap and milestones and ensured that teams are working on high impact projects that align with the company mission and goals.

Contributed to enhancements in scheduling application to improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness.

Assisted in developing project timelines/deliverables/strategies for effective project management.

Responsible for maintaining requirement traceability matrix and hazard analysis document.

Conducted Gap Analysis to identify issues and propose solution to project.

Provide project status updates to team and upper management.

Sunrise Group of Institutions, Udaipur, INDIA August 2012 – April 2015

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

Served as Systems Analyst for the Decision Support and Information Technology Team.

Acted as a liaison between the Technical Team and Institution’s Management team for the design and development of Academic Web portal as a way of providing users (i.e. Students and Faculties) with information about their facilities and features.

Started out the project in its planning phase using the Agile methodology and facilitated meetings with the stakeholders to collect business user stories.

Reviewed business user stories and created several Excel and Word files to document the business process, user stories. Used UML to create sequence and use case diagram in Microsoft Visio.

Maintained documents and collaborated with the team by extensive use of SharePoint. Created mockups using Balsamiq.

As a member of administrative team responsible for helping in legal governmental inspections, I prepared and managed documents required for inspections of All India Council of Technical Education, University inspections and Ministry of Human Resource Development inspection.

Member of team responsible for administration of new stream of courses, preparing legal documents and files. Served as a key role on the Management Advisory Services Team, providing analytic support to strategic projects.

Served as a systems administrator for the Admissions Office enrollment management system, responsible for investigating, configuring, and deploying available functions and features, optimizing use for the Undergraduate Admissions Office.

Worked as part of a team to support and implement all Undergraduate Admissions Office communication plans to reach admissions prospects, applicants, and enrollees. Supported the Undergraduate Admissions Office by implementing reporting solutions using the department’s technology solution.

Developed dashboards, reporting solutions, ad hoc reports and other admission related tasks.

Ensured student data management and uniform reporting to management team by communicating with Admissions Staff across campus, as well as creating and maintaining documentation.

Planning and management of standalone national and international educational events, and related activities, including budgeting, logistical arrangements, coordination with multiple stakeholders, for successful conduct of the event. Ensure that program activities operate within the policies and procedures of the organization.

Responsible for maintaining strategic relationship between the company and J&K Peace Foundation (Jammu & Kashmir).

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